Alongside the myriad of announcements this morning from the Switch 2 Direct was the confirmation that certain Nintendo Switch titles would be getting enhanced Nintendo Switch 2 Editions. First up for the enhancement process are two of the Switch’s biggest titles, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and…
Not revealed in today’s Direct, Nintendo has a new wrinkle in store for publishers that opt to sell physical games without the physical component. For anyone looking to sell a “key-in-a-box,” Nintendo has a brand-new option: the Switch 2 Game-Key card. As the name suggests, this will be a Switch…
Mario Kart World, the newest entry in the Mario Kart franchise and the first new console game in over a decade, races on to Switch 2 in just two months! First teased back in January for the Switch 2 reveal, Mario Kart World was the first trailer shown off in…
One of the biggest leaps Nintendo ever made as a company was with its first true console capable of advanced polygonal graphics: the Nintendo 64. Launched back in 1996, the humble system paved the way for now legendary titles like Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. Now, Math Manent,…
While the rest of the world may be busy making their own Super Mario masterpieces these days, some players prefer to stick to the classics. Accomplished speed runner Darbian, whose specialty is retro platformers, set a new world speed record yesterday for Super Mario Bros. on NES. We’re talking, of…
New 3DS owners rejoice; three of the finest offerings of the 16-bit era are now available to download! The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, and Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest can all be purchased for $7.99 from the eShop, giving fans an excuse…
When it comes to celebrating anniversaries, Nintendo’s not one to disappoint. Whether it’s an entire year of Luigi or the resurgence of Kid Icarus, it loves to honor the games that make it the company we love. While this is nowhere near the level of those and others, it is…
Hold on to your hats, retro Nintendo fans. You may remember back in March, a Super Famicom inspired New 3DS LL was announced during the Japanese Nintendo Direct. Photos of the beautiful console made their way all over the internet to universal praise, while many gamers outside of Japan waited…
Despite EarthBound’s 22 year presence in the world, fans are still discovering and sharing fun little facts about gameplay. Buzz Buzz, the creature that very much resembles a bee in one of our favorite nostalgia driven Super Nintendo games, is best known for helping Ness embark on his crazy adventure…
A couple of days ago, a video surfaced on YouTube from the YouTube channel Game Escape, giving us a ten minute clip from a 1994 French documentary filmed titled Otaku. The film was translated to German, which is the version of the clip on YouTube, however, it was never released…
Texan gunmaker Precision Syndicate recently shared photos on Facebook of a very unique, and now controversial, one-of-a-kind Glock handgun designed to look like the NES zapper gun. Produced and played with in 1980s games like Duck Hunt and Hogan’s Alley, the fun zapper has been transformed into a very real…
Some of you may remember from last year that Dentsu Entertainment USA had announced that it was teaming up with Man of Action Entertainment to start on a new animated series based on the Mega Man franchise. While there hasn’t been much news regarding the project since then, it does…
To this day, Punch-Out!! remains to be one of the most iconic titles to have ever hit the NES– for a number of reasons. 30 years after its release, it appears that fans still don’t quite know everything that the game has to offer. A Reddit user by the name…
UPDATE (04/06): It looks like Nintendo has swooped in and asked the designers to remove their 3D Zelda 1 remake. Thankfully the team have a positive outlook, saying it was a blast to create and they realized this could happen from the start of development. You can read the team’s…
Discover what makes Nintendo so special in today’s gaming world through Nintendo Inquirer’s N Factor series! “What do you love about Nintendo? The more I ask myself that question, the more complex my answer gets. I decided to use the term “N factor” to describe my feelings, because while it’s…
